Polish Verbs - Language teaching program.

[Jacek Iwanski]

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I've written a next (available from the Internet ftp servers) MACINTOSH
program to help you learn Polish language.

Polish Verbs is an application that helps you learn and refresh your
knowledge about conjugation rules of Polish verbs. This is the second
program in my Polish for Everyone project.

The program comes with a predefined database of 2700 Polish verbs. You can
freely add new verbs and modify existing ones. You can easily add comments to
every verb. This is convenient to store the example sentences associated with
given verb. The conjugation rules are presented for all available tenses,
indicative and imperative moods and all genders. You can find even more
information about each verb like present participle, passive participle,
perfect participle, gerund, conj. pattern number, English translation
(translation is available for the first 150 verbs only - it will be updated
soon) there. There is an automatic conjugation patterns generator, so  you have
to just assign a predefined pattern to your newly introduced verb. You can
associate sounds (record sound using a microphone and play it  back) with each
verb. The program has an exercise window to quickly check your knowledge. You
can also  attach databases prepared by other users to your own verbs database
(to  share comments, sound and adding new verbs). The program can use file
sharing to share the same database in the networked environment (language
labs). 39 predefined groups of verbs make studying exceptions in a
systematic way very easy. The program is shareware and the unregistered
version has limitations.

The program is available from the "poniecki.berkeley.edu" server in directory:
"pub/polish/language/macintosh/polish-verbs-10.hqx" (1 MB file).

<ftp://poniecki.berkeley.edu/pub/polish/language/macintosh/polish-verbs-10.hqx>

Jacek Iwanski
jiwanski at alpha.luc.ac.be